by Terrance Heath | Mar 26, 2013 | Blog
I was chatting with my neighbor this weekend, as we watched our children playing together, she brought up the subject of the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments for and against marriage equality today. We discussed the odds that the court will ultimately overturn the...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 26, 2013 | Blog
The debacle in Cyprus is far from over, but it's already taught us some very important lessons. We've seen, for example, that the world's financial leaders insist on clinging to the principles of austerity economics even after they've failed over and over again. They...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 25, 2013 | Blog
There is a lesson from the Cyprus situation: If you are a large depositor you need to watch your back bank. You can't just assume someone will bail out the banks -- and you. The big banks have been able to keep governments from reigning them in, while getting...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 25, 2013 | Blog
All across Corporate America, top execs are feathering their own nests at the expense of their workers. The French have a better idea. The founder of modern management science, Peter Drucker, considered excessive executive pay an assault on good enterprise management...
by Thom Hartmann | Mar 22, 2013 | Blog
Republicans are already plotting their next opportunity to take our nation hostage. At his weekly press conference, John Boehner said the GOP will refuse to raise the debt ceiling in May, if the president doesn't agree to more spending cuts. President Obama already...
by Digby | Mar 21, 2013 | Blog
David Ignatius wrote his Iraq mea culpa today and it's a good one. He admits that Iraq was an epic strategic blunder and that he was wrong to have been such an enthusiastic cheerleader for it. But in chronicling his mistakes, I find this one to be almost shocking...
